Independence Gold Discovers Gold-Silver Intercepts at 3Ts Project

Independence Gold Corp., a well-financed mineral exploration company with holdings in British Columbia and Yukon, has announced significant findings at its 3Ts Gold and Silver Project. Situated approximately 185 kilometers southwest of Prince George, the project spans 35,486 hectares in the Nechako Plateau region and lies 16 kilometers southwest of Artemis Gold Inc.'s Blackwater Mine. The 3Ts Project hosts a low-sulphidation epithermal quartz-carbonate vein district, with at least twenty known mineralized veins, ranging from 50 to over 1,100 meters in strike length and true widths up to 32 meters, of which twelve remain untested by drilling.

The company has completed three additional drill holes during its 2026 winter/spring program, focusing on the Balrog and Tommy veins. The first significant result came from Hole 3TS-26-50, which tested the Balrog vein at depth beneath the microdiorite sill. This hole intersected multiple discrete gold-silver mineralized intervals between 83.20 and 110.23 meters, including 1.20 meters grading 2.24 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 21.67 g/t silver. These results extend the known Balrog vein mineralization below the sill and support the interpretation that the mineralized system continues at depth. The Company notes that the Balrog vein remains open both along strike and vertically.

Shallow resource infill drilling at the Tommy Vein (Holes 3TS-26-32 and 3TS-26-33) returned additional high-grade gold-silver intercepts. The true width of the 3TS-26-32 vein is 57% of the reported interval, while the true width of the 3TS-26-33 vein is 50% of the reported interval. The true width of the 3TS-26-50 vein is 64% of the reported interval. These results add useful infill information within the existing resource area and provide further evidence of how the microdiorite sill locally disrupted the earlier vein system.

The Company's quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) program includes the routine insertion of certified reference materials, blank samples, and field duplicates into each sample batch. Analytical methods used include a 30-gram fire assay with atomic absorption spectrometry finish (GO_FAA30V10) for gold analyses and aqua regia digestion followed by ICP-AES analysis (GE_ICP21B20) for multi-element analyses, including silver, lead, zinc, copper, and pathfinder elements. Samples returning values above analytical limits are re-analyzed using appropriate over-limit methods where required.

Exploration plans for the fall include soil geochemistry, trenching, and prospecting over several new targets outlined by the 2025 airborne geophysical survey and the recently completed AI survey. This will be followed by a drill program expected to commence during the fourth quarter of 2026.